Robert Lory 9 min read

Shoved from a subway car by the eight p.m. crowd, a man comes to on the WESTBORO platform, the name meaning nothing to him, unsure if he's been asleep, unconscious, or something stranger.

Robert Lory's 1963 story is a disorienting first-contact and social-SF tale of a man adrift in a hostile city. Sharp, unsettling golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story that drops its amnesiac hero into a jarring urban crush and slowly reveals what has happened to him.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).